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Martie
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0 posted 2004-12-01 10:01 PM


Fried Green Tomatoes

I could hear her as sure as Wednesday’s laugh
Her voice horse with the first cold of season
As I scowled at the tomato from Vons so wrapped
That I couldn’t see the skin of it   less sap

Her vine lay there beside her skirt
Snaking up the garden’s trellis    less spurt
Every one was green yet full and round
She asked how do fried green tomatoes sound

To the hungry who I heard off in the yard
Bellowing ages young and hard

And just now beneath my own vine I saw
Reflection of time for strength to draw
And like before in a desert of travel
She wasn’t so different from me at all.
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within a memory of recall
we aren't so different at all!
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1 posted 2004-12-01 10:09 PM


Martie Party,  thanx for the share of just
a few memories....the visit to a past and
the thought of Fried Green Tomatoes...
Yum yum...

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2 posted 2004-12-01 10:13 PM


Oh Martie, both of these reached in deep, and grabbed some incredible memories.
Thank you for sharing these pieces of heart.

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3 posted 2004-12-01 10:41 PM


Wonderful wonderful write dear Martie...
someday mayhaps you will teach me how?
Hugging you tight for this treasure.

~ Let peace begin with me... ~

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4 posted 2004-12-02 05:38 AM



Yes...

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5 posted 2004-12-02 06:59 AM


This is totally Fab Martie girl, Yuuum..fried green tomatoes

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

Love it.

Mxx

into this night i wonder, it's morning that i dread, another day of knowing of, the path i fear to tread.
~Sarah McLachlan~

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6 posted 2004-12-02 08:15 AM


lil neighbor, you do some things
with words
that only an artist can conjur

enjoyed this one

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7 posted 2004-12-02 09:01 AM


Wonderful Martie!

DS said it..

you brush a story with your soft strokes.

  and I feel the canvas.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

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8 posted 2004-12-02 12:33 PM


you leave me speechless with this Martie.
I loved this.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

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9 posted 2004-12-02 03:10 PM


I think I just understood your secret....to write as beautifully as Martie, all you have to do is live poetry, and tell about it.

...but somehow I suspect it isn't quite as simple as that....

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10 posted 2004-12-02 03:44 PM


And just now beneath my own vine I saw
Reflection of time for strength to draw

That's a crop anyone would envy. *S*

This reminds me of one of my mother's wartime stories... thank you for those thoughts. *S*

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11 posted 2004-12-02 07:48 PM


your poetry reflects seeing feeling and understanding life in ways some of us only know by reading your poetry - lovely Martie - Paul
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12 posted 2004-12-03 12:52 PM


always touching the heart
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13 posted 2004-12-03 07:05 PM


bravo martie...

bravo

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